I sit still
watching the sky change
like the ember of a fire
burning out
I can hear barking
maybe dogs
I wonder if they are my dogs
but I don’t have any dogs
only a room
under the sky

and a single stream
of smoke
pouring out
like the mouth of a river
where the flame was
dissolving

and I wish you were
someone else
and I wish you could see
what I saw
in the dying
embers
of the sky
right before
it was gone
and became a night
just like any other night
is
without you
now